Shamima Begum: judges to rule if removal of UK citizenship was lawful

Special immigration appeals commission decision will not determine whether woman can return to UK

Judges will give their decision on Wednesday whether the removal of British citizenship from Shamima Begum, who left the UK as a 15-year-old schoolgirl to join Islamic State (IS), was lawful.

Begum left her home in east London in 2015 with two school friends to travel to Syria, marrying the Dutch national Yago Riedijk, 27, shortly after. She was found in a refugee camp in 2019, stripped of her British citizenship and banned from entering Britain. She has been fighting to return to the UK ever since.